Radar Systems Architect

BAE Systems; Tamworth; Hybrid; GBP 54,000 - 61,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading aerospace company in the UK seeks a Radar Systems Architect. This role involves translating customer needs into effective sensor architectures and ensuring compliance with aviation standards. The ideal candidate will have a degree in Electrical Engineering or a related field, with demonstrated sensor testing experience. This position offers a competitive salary and the opportunity for hybrid work arrangements.

Benefits

Competitive pension scheme

Employee share plans

Flexible health benefits

Green car scheme

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in sensor architecture and testing.
• Proficient in system specifications and interface definitions.
• Ability to explain technical concepts clearly.

Responsibilities

• Translate customer capability needs into sensor system architectures.
• Define specifications for robust sensor designs.
• Ensure compliance with safety standards.

Skills

Ability to effectively capture and interpret customer capability requirements

Experience in sensor architecture

Proficiency in developing system specifications

Skilled at explaining complex technical concepts

Experience in sensor testing

Education

Degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronics, or RF Engineering

Job description

Job title and location

Job title: Radar Systems Architect
Location: Warton – We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role

Salary: £54,793-£60,326 Dependent of skills and experience

What you’ll be doing

• Translate customer capability needs into sensor system architectures that deliver mission-critical performance
• Define clear specifications and interface requirements to drive robust and scalable sensor designs
• Communicate complex technical concepts with clarity, enabling knowledge sharing and informed design decisions across teams
• Ensure compliance with airborne software and firmware safety standards, maintaining the highest levels of assurance and certification
• Act as the Subject Matter Expert (SME), providing trusted guidance to colleagues, stakeholders, and decision-makers

Your skills and experiences

Essential Skills

• Ability to effectively capture and interpret customer capability requirements
• Experience in sensor architecture, assessing contributions from multiple sensors to deliver end-user capability
• Proficiency in developing system specifications, interface definitions, and design documentation
• Skilled at explaining complex technical concepts, contributing to design decisions, and sharing knowledge across teams
• Demonstrated experience in sensor testing at equipment and system level
• Degree (or equivalent experience) in Electrical Engineering, Electronics, or Radio Frequency (RF) Engineering

• Desirable Skills
• Awareness of airborne software/firmware safety and assurance processes
• Experience working in multi-partner, multi-national projects and collaborative environments

Benefits

As well as a competitive pension scheme, BAE Systems also offers employee share plans, an extensive range of flexible discounted health, wellbeing and lifestyle benefits, including a green car scheme, private health plans and shopping discounts - you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.

The Radar Team

Join us and take the opportunity to work on cutting-edge technology within the Typhoon ETRS Mark 2 jet, one of the most advanced fighter aircraft in the world. In this role, you will be the Subject Matter Expert for your department, providing technical leadership, guiding design decisions, and helping to shape the future of airborne sensor systems.

You will work closely with internal teams and partner nations across Europe and the UK, providing hands-on support, sharing expertise, and driving collaborative solutions. This role offers exposure to complex, high-profile projects and the chance to influence strategic decisions that have a real operational impact.

In addition, you’ll stay at the forefront of emerging technologies, continuously expanding your skill set through professional development and practical experience. Your contributions will be recognised and rewarded, with clear opportunities to grow your career within a world-class organisation that values innovation, expertise, and collaboration.

If you are passionate about advanced aerospace systems, enjoy working in a collaborative international environment, and thrive when solving complex technical challenges, this is the role for you.

Why BAE Systems?

This is a place where you’ll be able to make a real difference. You’ll be part of an inclusive culture that values diversity of thought, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you’ll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome people from all backgrounds and want to make sure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. If you have a disability or health condition (for example dyslexia, autism, an anxiety disorder etc.) that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments.

Please be aware that many roles at BAE Systems are subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors such as your nationality, any nationalities you may have previously held, and your place of birth can restrict the roles you are eligible to perform within the organisation. All applicants must as a minimum achieve Baseline Personnel Security Standard. Many roles also require higher levels of National Security Vetting where applicants must typically have 5 to 10 years of continuous residency in the UK depending on the vetting level required for the role, to allow for meaningful security vetting checks.

Closing Date

15 October 2025

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

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How to apply

When applying for this role you will be redirected to BAE Systems careers site where you will be required to:

• Register an account
• Provide contact information
• Upload your CV
• Complete a short diversity & inclusion questionnaire

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